Subject: bug#8930: $date +%C

From: James Youngman <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 21:18:18 +0100

2011/6/24 Dimitri Tassiaux <[email-masked]>:
> *Century error !*

This isn't a very intelligible bug report.   When reporting a bug in
software please state as precisely as possible:
1. What you did.
2. What you expected to happen.
3. What actually did happen.

In this case I assume you think that %C prints the century, for
example 21.   It turns out that it doesn't.   From the documentation:
       %C     century; like %Y, except omit last two digits (e.g., 20)

I agree though that using the word "century" here is misleading.

> date (GNU coreutils) 8.5
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> <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
> Ceci est logiciel libre, vous êtes libre de le modifier et de le
> redistribuer.
> Ce logiciel n'est accompagné d'ABSOLUMENT AUCUNE GARANTIE, dans les limites
> autorisees par la loi applicable.
>
> Écrit par David MacKenzie.
>